by Anonymous (267 Submissions)
Category: Windows System Services
Compatability: Visual Basic 4.0 (32-bit)
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Wed 1st September 1999
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
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Create a multi-level directory structure using CreateDirectory API call
API Declarations
nLength As Long
lpSecurityDescriptor As Long
bInheritHandle As Long
End Type
Private Declare Function CreateDirectory Lib "kernel32" Alias "CreateDirectoryA" (ByVal lpPathName As String, lpSecurityAttributes As SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) As Long
VBcoders
Public Sub CreateNewDirectory(NewDirectory As String)
Dim sDirTest As String
Dim SecAttrib As SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
Dim bSuccess As Boolean
Dim sPath As String
Dim iCounter As Integer
Dim sTempDir As String
iFlag = 0
sPath = NewDirectory
If Right(sPath, Len(sPath)) <> "\" Then
sPath = sPath & "\"
End If
iCounter = 1
Do Until InStr(iCounter, sPath, "\") = 0
iCounter = InStr(iCounter, sPath, "\")
sTempDir = Left(sPath, iCounter)
sDirTest = Dir(sTempDir)
iCounter = iCounter + 1
'create directory
SecAttrib.lpSecurityDescriptor = &O0
SecAttrib.bInheritHandle = False
SecAttrib.nLength = Len(SecAttrib)
bSuccess = CreateDirectory(sTempDir, SecAttrib)
Loop
End Sub
'call to create a new directory
Call CreateNewDirectory("c:\mydir\testing\visual basic\")
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